Mark Harris's Blog

The development of patents as a functioning asset class has reached a critical phase according to a report from AISTEMOS, which is backed by organisations including ARM, EY, Deutsche Bank, UK IPO and Allied Security Trust. "The trillion dollar tipping point: Exploiting the untapped value in patents" claims that businesses are failing to exploit the full value of…

Imagine you're an inventor, and you're at a dinner party. You're introduced to two individuals who describe their jobs thus:

"I'm Dick, I run a multi billion dollar technology company. We sell products that contain lots of patented inventions. We take a calculated risk that where the patent owner is a small business, we can use their patent without paying them as they do not have the resources to come after us. Even if they did, we have more lawyers than you can shake a…